User talk:Mikeblas

Welcome!

Hello Mikeblas, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  RJFJR 17:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, so you're the Chinabot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.243.187.209 (talk) 05:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

CS1 error on List of high school football rivalries less than 100 years old

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of high school football rivalries less than 100 years old, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:22, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

I should have cleaned up that ref on Effects of Meditation article myself. I missed it. Best.Littleolive oil (talk) 19:16, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

No worries! Happens all the time. -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:13, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

I wouldn't say I was particularly being careful when I made that edit. Thanks for fixing it. Cheers, Cutlass^Ciera 14:37, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Happy to help! :) -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:49, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Superstation

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Superstation, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "missing periodical" error. References show this error when the name of the magazine or journal is not given. Please edit the article to add the name of the magazine/journal to the reference, or use a different citation template. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 21:22, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Composite construction

I just wanted to point out that I am a little surprised by your editing style with this[1], since it seems to go against your stated aims on your user page. It also goes against the various bits of advice on how to handle unreferenced material in Wikipedia. It is pretty obvious from the section that some dumb editor (me) has forgotten to provide the full reference. Deleting the entire section is not helpful for the encyclopaedia, as it would not be difficult for another editor to track down what was intended by the orphan references. You could even find the likely candidate yourself by looking at articles linked in the section (Cutty Sark).

A simple tag and a ping would have, I hope, been my approach, rather than a wholesale deletion. This is not something I am going to lose sleep over, but neither is it something that can go without comment. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 19:30, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry that you didn't approve of the way I fixed your erroneous edit. In the end, though, that doesn't matter. What does matter is that you fixed it. -- Mikeblas (talk) 19:36, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!

Your article on the Capacitor plague is well written and contains very useful information. Thank you very much for putting this together! Millencolin (talk) 13:08, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! But it's been more than a decade since I worked on it, and a lot of hands have touched it since. It's a communal effort! -- Mikeblas (talk) 20:44, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry ...

Thanks for all your work on ref errors and on broken templates. Sorry for adding to your workload by temporarily breaking {{Irish TD table begin}}, and thanks for your unsually helpful edit summary[2] when you reverted me.

It was one of those annoying cases where despite extensive testing, it didn't didn't work as planned when I deployd it from the sandbox to the live template, so I had to flurry around testing a series of patches until it all stabilised.

If you are interested, it was all to enable me to make a solution to the succession box issue discussed at WT:WikiProject Ireland#TD_and_MEP_articles_and_the_'s-par'_template. I seem to have succeeded more neatly than I had hoped: see WT:WikiProject_Ireland#A_neat_solution_for_TD_navboxes BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)